SKS detachable magazines

[sirdutch]

Okay! I was hoping to change my SKS to accept detachable mags. I understand that they are kinda funky looking. I'm not wanting to be outside of the law.

Is it legal in California to modify it to accept 10 round detachable mags if one uses American made parts? It would not be a permanent modification of the firearm if did

My guess is that the answer is that it is not legal here in California.

Thanks.

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[Dirk Tungsten]

Unfortunately no. The "list" specifically calls out SKS's with detachable mags as being banned. Otherwise I would have done this long ago.

[sirdutch]

SKS detachable mags

WOW! That's just weird! Thanks!

[wpod]

I used detachable mags on my SKS. Unlike many, they worked fine for me. A metal 30-round and some polymer 20-round.
I went back to the original fixed 10-round.

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[JohnnyMtn]

The ?flowchart? handles doubts like this. https://www.calguns.net/caawid/flowchart.pdf

Unfortunately, SKS with detachable magazine was called out by name in the 1989 law and is therefore an assault weapon. Adding a detachable mag to an SKS would make it an assault weapon which would mean that you are constructing an assault weapon which would mean that you are breaking the law.

[Quiet]

SKS detachable magazines

Okay! I was hoping to change my SKS to accept detachable mags. I understand that they are kinda funky looking. I'm not wanting to be outside of the law.

Is it legal in California to modify it to accept 10 round detachable mags if one uses American made parts? It would not be a permanent modification of the firearm if did

My guess is that the answer is that it is not legal here in California.

Thanks.

CA illegal since 06-01-1989. [PC 30510(a)(11)]
In order to remain CA legal to possess, they were required to be registered as an assault weapon before 01-01-1991. [PC 30900(a)(1)]


Penal Code 30510
As used in this chapter and in Sections 16780, 17000, and 27555, "assault weapon" means the following designated semiautomatic firearms:
(a) All of the following specified rifles:
(11) SKS with detachable magazine.

[beerman]

Is it really that hard to load via stripper clips? I can load mine in about 2 seconds.

[Quiet]

Is it really that hard to load via stripper clips? I can load mine in about 2 seconds.

It's faster to load the standard fixed magazine using stripper clips, then to load using the "duckbill" SKS detachable magazines.

[bohoki]

some take their chances with the yugo ones since they are not an "sks" like most peoples ar-15s are not ar-15s

but if your firearm says sks on it dont do it

besides they are a bit of a pain since the bolt has to be back to insert and remove it

[boris badinov]

some take their chances with the yugo ones since they are not an "sks" like most peoples ar-15s are not ar-15s

but if your firearm says sks on it dont do it

besides they are a bit of a pain since the bolt has to be back to insert and remove it

How is the Yugo not an sks, exactly?

[BrokerB]

Star 20 rounders!!

My strippers from my oem Chinese 200 round vest slide smoothly in my pointy sticks

[MajorSideburns]

How is the Yugo not an sks, exactly?

He means in relation to the California ban. The Yugo is not an SKS in the same way that your off list California legal Anderson AM-15 lower is not a banned Colt AR-15 lower. The ban on SKS with detachable magazines comes from the Roberti-Roos banned by name list. The photo in the DOJ guide shows a Chinese SKS and states "SKS usually found on left side of receiver". https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/a.../aws-guide.pdf The original ban with this language also listed all AK and AR pattern rifles, and a subsequent case ruled that language was too vague and banned guns had to be listed by make and model not "series". I believe the Norinco SKS-D was added to that named list. Most importers put "SKS" on the Russian and Chinese ones but the Yugos tend to have the actual model as Zastava M59 or M59/66 and don't feature the actual word "SKS" in the engravings. I personally wouldn't risk playing this game of semantics in such a tyrannical state especially with lack of case law but I understand the argument.

[boris badinov]

He means in relation to the California ban. The Yugo is not an SKS in the same way that your off list California legal Anderson AM-15 lower is not a banned Colt AR-15 lower. The ban on SKS with detachable magazines comes from the Roberti-Roos banned by name list. The photo in the DOJ guide shows a Chinese SKS and states "SKS usually found on left side of receiver". https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/a.../aws-guide.pdf The original ban with this language also listed all AK and AR pattern rifles, and a subsequent case ruled that language was too vague and banned guns had to be listed by make and model not "series". I believe the Norinco SKS-D was added to that named list. Most importers put "SKS" on the Russian and Chinese ones but the Yugos tend to have the actual model as Zastava M59 or M59/66 and don't feature the actual word "SKS" in the engravings. I personally wouldn't risk playing this game of semantics in such a tyrannical state especially with lack of case law but I understand the argument.

Sounds like a pretty weak argument. While not all of the Yugos bear the SKS engraving, some of them do.

Ohio Ordnance, Mitchell's, SDI, and TGKnoxville, all stamped "SKS" on their Yugo Imports.

Not to mention the fact that barring stock wood, the M59 is an exact copy of post 1954, final Soviet sks design. Or that major parts and components are interchangeable between all of the national variants.

[Dan_Eastvale]

Is an SKS, Isn't an SKS
Is an AK, Isn't an AK etc.

In our lifetime they'll eliminate all confusion and a huge listing by two words:

Semi Automatic

[IrishJoe3]

Sounds like a pretty weak argument. While not all of the Yugos bear the SKS engraving, some of them do.

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It's also the same argument they made off list lowers a thing. Even through we all call them AR15s, legally AR-15 is technically only one specific model. So a clone with a different model number isn't an AR-15.

SKS is the name for the Soviet designed and manufactured carbine of 1945; "Samozaryadny Karabin sistemy Simonova"

The same pattern carbine I have was made in Yugoslavia in the 50s-60s and it's not technically an SKS; it's a Model 59.

Technicality? Yes. Just like off list lowers. That said your right it's probably not smart to put a removable mag on a M59 if you want to avoid drama.